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Correlations between building performances and design parameters of double‐skin facade utilizing perforated screen

Japan Architectural Review, 2021
This study investigates the effect of a perforated sheet combined with a double‐skin facade (DSPF) by varying the important building parameters, such as perforation percentage, facade orientation, and the thickness of the double‐skin facade (DSF).
Thanyalak Srisamranrungruang, Kyosuke Hiyama   +1 more
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Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]

, 2013
Hospital staff’s preferences for daylighting to notions of the effects of daylight on patient’s recovery times and processes, their experiences of daylight when treating and diagnosing patients and patient comfort levels is studied.
Al-Ansari, Abdullah, Ali Talib, Raidh, Alzubaidi, Safaa Ali, Banfill, Phillip Frank Gower, Roaf, Susan   +4 more
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Daylighting Performance of Integrated Light Shelf with Horizontal Light Pipe System for Deep Plan High-Rise Office in Tropical Climate

Journal of Daylighting, 2022
Tropical countries such as Malaysia receives a significant amount of daylight. The utilisation of this renewable resource in a high-rise office building leads to opportunities and challenges.
Christopher Heng Yii Sern, Louis Ting Kwang Liou, Sharifah Fairuz Syed Fadzil   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Simulations and Empirical Data for the Evaluation of Daylight Factors in Existing Buildings in Sweden

Energies, 2019
Point Daylight Factor (DFP) has been used for daylighting design in Sweden for more than 40 years. Progressive densification of urban environments, in combination with stricter regulations on energy performance and indoor environmental quality of ...
Sara Eriksson, Lovisa Waldenström, Max Tillberg, Magnus Österbring, Angela Sasic Kalagasidis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When the sun never sets: diverse activity rhythms under continuous daylight in free-living arctic-breeding birds [PDF]

, 2013
Circadian clocks are centrally involved in the regulation of daily behavioural and physiological processes. These clocks are synchronized to the 24-hour day by external cues (Zeitgeber), the most important of which is the light-dark cycle.
Helm, B., Kempenaers, B., Spoelstra, K., Steiger, S.S., Valcu, M., Wikelski, M.   +5 more
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EFFECTS OF LOUVERS SHADING DEVICES ON VISUAL COMFORT AND ENERGY DEMAND OF AN OFFICE BUILDING. A CASE OF STUDY [PDF]

, 2017
This paper evaluates the building energy demand and visual comfort of a real case with a glazed façade office building placed in Málaga (Mediterranean city in the south of Spain).
Carrillo Rueda, Simón, Cejudo-Lopez, Jose Manuel, Fernández Hernández, Francisco, González Murriano, Mª Carmen, Peña Suárez, José Miguel   +4 more
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3D Monte Carlo radiation transfer modelling of photodynamic therapy [PDF]

, 2015
We acknowledge the support of the UK Engineering and Physics Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for funding through a studentship for C L Campbell as well as the Alfred Stewart Trust.The effects of ageing and skin type on Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) for ...
Brown, C Tom A, Campbell, Catherine Louise, Christison, C., Moseley, H., Valentine, Ronan Martin, Wood, Kenny   +5 more
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Thermal and spectral impact of building integrated Mirrored Light Pipe to human circadian rhythms and thermal environment

International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 2022
Light holds an important place in the way of life of humans. The first type of lighting which could be exploited was daylight. Tubular Daylight Guidance Systems (TDGS) transport and distribute this daylight inside a building.
Bruno Malet-Damour, Damien Ali Hamada Fakra   +1 more
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Transition Planes for Visual Comfort: Out View with Complex Fenestration System Design at Restaurants in Spain

Energies, 2021
This work deals with daylighting for quality indoor atmospheres, considering building skins. In recent years, almost all retrofit facades of restaurants are highly glazed façades, boosting glare, sun ray absorption and overheating inside.
Urtza Uriarte, Jose Miguel Rico-Martinez, Joan L. Zamora, Rufino J. Hernández   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Daylight savings: what an answer to the perceptual variation problem cannot be [PDF]

, 2020
Significant variations in the way objects appear across different viewing conditions pose a challenge to the view that they have some true, determinate color.
Cohen, Jonathan, Michaelson, Eliot
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